“An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people- it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery”
“An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people- it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery”
“There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself”
“Don't find fault, find a remedy”
“When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.”
“Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us -- but not suckle us”
“I will hold your hand but as long as all may, or so very little longer!”
“Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members”